S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6519--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER, MORINELLO, SMULLEN, McDONOUGH, LEVENBERG
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly
Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to owner
liability for failure of operator to comply with certain posted maxi-
mum speed limits in the town of Yorktown, Westchester county; and to
amend the general municipal law, in relation to making technical
corrections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Jake's Law".
§ 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1180-e of the vehicle
and traffic law, as amended by section 1 of part G of chapter 58 of the
laws of 2026, is amended to read as follows:
1. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of
transportation is hereby authorized to establish a demonstration program
imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
operator thereof to comply with posted maximum speed limits in a highway
construction or maintenance work area located on a highway (i) when
highway construction or maintenance work is occurring and a work area
speed limit is in effect as provided in paragraph two of subdivision (d)
or subdivision (f) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or
(ii) when highway construction or maintenance work is occurring and
other speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b) or (g)
or paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eighty of
this article. Such demonstration program shall empower the commissioner
to install photo speed violation monitoring systems within no more than
forty highway construction or maintenance work areas located on highways
and to operate such systems within such work areas (iii) when highway
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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construction or maintenance work is occurring and a work area speed
limit is in effect as provided in paragraph two of subdivision (d) or
subdivision (f) of section eleven hundred eighty of this article or (iv)
when highway construction or maintenance work is occurring and other
speed limits are in effect as provided in subdivision (b) or (g) or
paragraph one of subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred eighty of
this article. The commissioner, in consultation with the superintendent
of the division of state police, shall determine the location of the
highway construction or maintenance work areas located on a highway in
which to install and operate photo speed violation monitoring systems.
In selecting a highway construction or maintenance work area in which to
install and operate a photo speed violation monitoring system, the
commissioner shall consider criteria including, but not limited to, the
speed data, crash history, and roadway geometry applicable to such high-
way construction or maintenance work area. A photo speed violation moni-
toring system shall not be installed or operated on a highway exit ramp.
(B) PROVIDED THAT, IN ADDITION TO THE HIGHWAYS THAT THE COMMISSIONER
IS AUTHORIZED TO OPERATE THE PROGRAM ON PURSUANT TO SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF
THIS PARAGRAPH, THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED
AND EMPOWERED TO IMPOSE MONETARY LIABILITY ON THE OWNER OF A VEHICLE FOR
FAILURE OF AN OPERATOR THEREOF TO COMPLY WITH MAXIMUM POSTED SPEED
LIMITS IN A HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE WORK AREA LOCATED ON A
HIGHWAY IN THE TOWN OF YORKTOWN IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY (I) WHEN HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE WORK IS OCCURRING AND A WORK AREA SPEED
LIMIT IS IN EFFECT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH TWO OF SUBDIVISION (D) OR
SUBDIVISION (F) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THIS ARTICLE OR (II)
WHEN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION OR MAINTENANCE WORK IS OCCURRING AND
OTHER SPEED LIMITS ARE IN EFFECT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (B) OR (G)
OR PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBDIVISION (D) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY
OF THIS ARTICLE, UPON APPROVAL IN WRITING OBTAINED BY THE COMMISSIONER
FROM THE TOWN, PROVIDED THAT THE TOWN MAY AT ANY TIME RESCIND OR MODIFY
SUCH APPROVAL.
§ 3. Section 371-a of the general municipal law, as amended by section
10 of part N of chapter 58 of the laws of 2025, is amended to read as
follows:
§ 371-a. Additional jurisdiction and procedure related to the adjudi-
cation of certain notices of liability. A traffic violations bureau
established pursuant to subdivision one and a traffic and parking
violations agency established pursuant to subdivision two of section
three hundred seventy-one of this article may be authorized to adjudi-
cate, in accordance with the provisions of this article, the liability
of owners: (a) for violations of subdivision (d) of section eleven
hundred eleven of the vehicle and traffic law imposed pursuant to a
local law or ordinance imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with traffic-con-
trol indications through the installation and operation of traffic-con-
trol signal photo violation-monitoring systems, in accordance with arti-
cle twenty-four of the vehicle and traffic law; or (b) for violations of
section eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law when
meeting a school bus marked and equipped as provided in subdivisions
twenty and twenty-one-c of section three hundred seventy-five of the
vehicle and traffic law imposed pursuant to a local law or ordinance
imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
operator thereof to comply with school bus red visual signals through
the installation and operation of school bus photo violation monitoring
systems, in accordance with article twenty-nine of the vehicle and traf-
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fic law; or (c) for violations of subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of
section eleven hundred eighty of the vehicle and traffic law imposed
pursuant to a demonstration program imposing monetary liability on the
owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
such posted maximum speed limits within a [highway] construction or
maintenance work area through the installation and operation of photo
speed violation monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of
this chapter; or (d) for violations of section three hundred eighty-five
of the vehicle and traffic law and the rules of the applicable covered
agency or covered authority as such terms are defined in article ten of
the vehicle and traffic law in relation to gross vehicle weight and/or
axle weight violations imposed pursuant to a weigh in motion demon-
stration program imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle
for failure of an operator thereof to comply with such gross vehicle
weight and/or axle weight restrictions through the installation and
operation of weigh in motion violation monitoring systems, in accordance
with article ten of the vehicle and traffic law.
§ 4. The town of Yorktown and the commissioner of transportation are
hereby authorized and empowered to install signage giving advance notice
to motor vehicle operators of the presence of photo speed violation
monitoring systems operated pursuant to a demonstration program author-
ized by article thirty of the vehicle and traffic law, in conformance
with standards established in the manual on uniform traffic control
devices maintained by the commissioner of transportation pursuant to
section sixteen hundred eighty of the vehicle and traffic law. The town
of Yorktown is additionally authorized to design and implement a public
information campaign before photo speed violation monitoring systems
authorized pursuant to the provisions of section eleven hundred eighty-e
of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section two of this act,
go into operation, to notify and educate motor vehicle operators about
such demonstration program.
§ 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 1180-e of the
vehicle and traffic law made by section two of this act shall not affect
the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.